She told Channel 5's Jeremy Vine: "This is the first time I've said this publicly. In June I smashed my kids' iPads, not in a violent way. I actually banged them on the table leg."

She added: "There is a game called Fortnite and another PUBG and I decided... we had made all sorts of rules and all sorts of times when we said you can't play them and all those rules got broken and in the end I said 'Right that is it, I have to physically (break them)."

Asked to show how she did it, she replied: "It was remarkably easy. I didn't intend to speak about it but it's come up now."

Storm Huntley, who appears on the show alongside Vine, praised Allsopp saying: "I like that, that is my kind of parenting."